Article: Stephen Hislop and his 1860 Cretaceous continental molluscan new species descriptions in Latin from the Deccan Plateau, India
Publication: Palaeontology
Volume:
51
Part:
6
Publication Date:
November
2008
Page(s):
1225
–
1252
Author(s):
Joseph H. Hartman, Daniel N. Erickson and Anne Bakken
Abstract
In 1860, Stephen Hislop published a data-rich document on the infra- and intertrappean strata of the Deccan Plateau of central India, along with numerous new taxa of continental and marine molluscs. His scholarship interestingly blended antiquated, contemporary, and ahead-of-his-time palaeontological methods. Although his work established a completely adequate foundation upon which to build future end-Cretaceous Deccan molluscan studies, effectively no substantive work ensued, with only incidental subsequent reference to his effort.